A Prairie Home Quilts

Oh, wait.  These are supposed to be Halloween noises. I guess it should be shrieking in fear. Here is my “shriek” block for Tonya’s Slither Eek Boo quilt.

Tee hee.

Okay.  It’s really Ludo sleeping on my “shriek” block.  All fabric is fair game for him as a prime sleeping spot.  My plan for “shriek” was to make it with long, pointy-type letters.  I sketched out my original idea on a piece of scrap paper shown at the bottom of the picture below.  Then I drew the letters out a little larger and gave some thought as to what part of the letter to form first, second & third because most of the letters had three parts.

You’ll notice in my drawing that I forgot the “r” so youngest DS drew an “r” for me at the bottom of the paper.  I made a note for myself about remembering to allow for the seam allowance at the end of all my points because I didn’t want them getting chopped off.

Here are my letters in the order that I stitched them together.  The “e” was the most difficult.  Actually, not difficult but fiddly.  It didn’t quite turn out as I had planned in my drawing but I didn’t want to keep messing with it.  It’s an “e” and it’s got pointy parts.  You can see from the “r” that I started with straight pieces of fabric.  I sewed the background fabric bits on at an angle to make the points.

Here is “shriek.”  It’s pretty large — about 9″ x 24″.  Another important thing to point out is how much more background fabric it takes when you are being fiddly with the letters. It took more of the purple background fabric than I thought it would to make the block.  More seams equals more fabric used.  I really like how the block turned out though, and I only chopped off a very tiny tip at the bottom of the “r.”

Tonya, this was a lot of fun to do and to see what everyone else came up with!  [You can see more blocks here and here.] I have more word quilts planned in the future.  Thanks for letting me play.